J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin)

Associate Dean (PG Academics) HOD and Professor of Medicine, Consultant Diabetologist SRM Medical College Hospital. Marathoner...Run as long as you can!

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

This is what I call #exercise
#snacking. Can be implemented anywhere, however busy one may be. Reel prepared by my undergraduate students.

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

90 minutes per week in two sessions is what is required for mitigating sarcopenia once you cross 45 years.

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Morning Run with younger brother

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

@Rheumat_Aravind B Bechet’s Disease

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[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Bakrid holiday! So it gives time for an easy run for one hour in hot hot Chennai morning

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Midweek easy run on treadmill as outside weather too hot 31 degrees

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Sunday Long run for 90 minutes

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@Rheumat_Aravind Familial Mediterranean Fever

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[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

12 km on a muggy Sunday morning with a 91 percent humidity !

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Sunday long run 80 min , 11 km easy pace. #chennaisummer

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

@drstak70 Movie theatre!

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Looking carefully at the screen, the critical clinical mistake is clearly visible:
The doctor has placed the stethoscope bell over the wrist/radial artery region, instead of the correct anatomical landmark.
Quite ironic that a Ministry of Health public health advertisement — meant to carry medical authority — demonstrates incorrect clinical technique of BP measurement. @MoHFW_INDIA

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

25 minutes on treadmill

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@thekaransinghal What about clinicians in India? Verification is required , asking for NPI

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Leg workout ! Quads and hamstrings fired!

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Happy Tamil New Year! Vishu Aashamsakal.

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

Sixty years journey on this mother earth were well celebrated by runner friends post Sunday Morning LSD: Long Slow Distance 80 minutes run in the morning humid weather.

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

@Rheumat_Aravind Anti-CCP can be transiently positive in viral arthritis too.

[J S Kumar MD FRCP (Edin) @docchennai]

@Rheumat_Aravind B. Parvovirus B 19
- Febrile prodrome with rash — hallmark of B19 infection
- Short duration (3 weeks) — B19 arthritis is typically self-limiting over 2–6 weeks